From Tahoe to Yosemite to Arrowhead, heavy snow buries California mountain communities
LA TimesCrews delayed plans to escort residents over Highway 18 and other mountain roads Wednesday because drivers continued to get stuck. Another week of pounding snow has deluged many of California’s most popular mountain resorts and communities, from Lake Tahoe to Lake Arrowhead, where residents struggled with shuttered highways and dwindling food supplies. Many residents remained trapped in their homes in the San Bernardino Mountains on Wednesday as crews worked to clear roads of snow that had blanketed the area in recent days, leading to at least one report of a collapsed roof and hampering the emergency response to a structure fire that injured two people. “We understand the nature of this emergency and how it is impacting our residents,” San Bernardino County Supervisor Dawn Rowe said during a news conference Wednesday. “So, a lot of primaries and secondaries and state highways were buried, and so we are in the process of digging them out right now.” Officials also responded to nearly 100 rescue calls because of the snow, according to San Bernardino County Fire Chief Dan Munsey.
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